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But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Strangest problems of life seem clearing — but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?
One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, wi — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
I don't want truth, Palmer; I want smoke!" Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete — Byron Edgington
The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back — Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and i — Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder — Herman Melville
To be in the presence of a great leader is to know a blighted soul who has managed to make the darkness work for him. Is — Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the roy — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel e — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame image had — L.L. Barkat, The Novelist
Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before th — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, bl — Herman Melville
Themes of descent often turn on the struggle between the titanic and the demonic within the same person or group. In Mob — Northrop Frye, Words with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature
It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the deser — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'."To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is — Justin Cronin, The Passage
He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser. — Kelly Moran, Benediction
It's only his outside — a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and sinc — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale